Politics is a market.
Policy is the price.

The Power & Policy desk treats the state as what it is in 2026: the single largest force in how companies compete, price, hire, and allocate capital. Industrial policy subsidies, tariff regimes, antitrust enforcement, financial regulation, climate rules, immigration policy, tax changes, and the elections that set the direction for all of the above.

Briefed covers Washington, Brussels, Westminster, and the capitals that matter for specific industries (Ottawa for mining, Tokyo for semis, Riyadh for energy). The lens is always the same: what does this do to the returns on capital, the cost structure, or the competitive position of the companies that readers care about?

Regulatory stories are often overcovered on politics and undercovered on mechanics. Briefed inverts that. The ruling matters less than the implementation timeline, the carve-outs, the second-order effects on adjacent industries, and the lobbying fights still to come. Election stories are filtered the same way: what changes for business if this outcome lands?

The desk connects heavily to Tech (export controls, AI Act), Markets (central bank independence, fiscal policy), and Companies (antitrust, state aid). When a policy story dominates the morning, it dominates the briefing.